The bottle of wine I’m currently going through lists tasting notes of “Sweet blackberries, raspberries, and plums”, but somehow omits the much stronger taste of burnt twigs.
(Note that this is not meant as a put-down of the wine in question; I’m quite fond of “earthy” flavours of smoke, tobacco, or leather in a hearty red. I just wish they’d mention them, rather than trying to give the impression of something light and fruity. Because, well, it just ain’t.)
(Which I knew going into the bottle, really, since this is one that I picked up last year at the winery proper. I’m remembering now that I bought it to cellar, and apparently eight months was insufficent cellar time for it to calm down and open up. As it sits in open air it’s improving a little bit, but it’s probably not something I’ll get again.)